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Subject: CARIBBEAN SEA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers


CARIBBEAN, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Montego bay/in its quick curve
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea


CARIBBEAN NOON, by MUNA LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bellflower sky is hung
Last Line: Vast sea petals that underlie %vaster petals of widening sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea


CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 1. SUNRISE IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sol, sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone
Last Line: Once more behold! The sun!
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Nature


DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the land of the dark-eyed gente
Last Line: Smoke — smoke — smoke.
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Health; Pleasure; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of tropic sensations, the worst
Last Line: Teestay, teestay.
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Drinks & Drinking; Pleasure; Wine


DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 5. THE DANCING GIRL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know what it is to dance?
Last Line: As here by the carib they're known.
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Dancing & Dancers


DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver flash from the sinking sun
Last Line: Queen night, on velvet slippered feet, comes softly down.
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime


LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me
Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water


THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


YJUANAS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not an iguana that isn't drawn up
Last Line: A place that can never be told in words
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Reptiles